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I believe it is AFTER knowing there ARE people who will like it that it is designed and produced. It is a product of profitability analysis instead of the designer's aesthetic judgement. (Does that pipe take a "designer"? :? ) Take my word, as I am a bean counter in the most barbarianly mo...

Alright, back to peace now...at least until I pop up with the next even more outlandish questions picked up from hell or somewhere else. :wink: By the way, Todd, any more of your wittily ambiguous, elusively double-talking, cynically hilarious, and pertly tongue-in-cheek answers directed at these qu...

Yes, you definitely pinpointed what gave me the most headaches during the process - the step taper, bowl-shank joint and the bottom bulge... Details ARE a big deal! It's that bit more patience that I failed to get in my sack. Thank you. Keep thrashing me in earnest. Be assured it will be fully incor...

A while ago I was discussing a topic on another forum where somebody proposed an inversely tapered drafthole in the shank, ie. a larger diameter at the bowl side and tapering toward the mortise end. Most people thought it impossible to make, but that person proposed using a mis-chucked drill bit wit...

This is my fourth work, but it's the first I made after discovering this fabulous site and gratefully devouring all the precious information available here. The help you guys provided made all the difference in my hobby! What's offered to newbies here is simply unimaginable in any other parts of the...

KurtHuhn wrote:Sorry. I invited him...

Have you invited the pal to enjoy a pipe of butt scent blend together with the oversized grizzly pets in your back garden?

Hi, BeatusLiebowitz, when you are itching for new tobaccos, I think it's better to first nail down what *types* of backy you particularly like. Is it heavily cased, slightly cased, pure virginia, burley, or English? This significantly reduces the chance of ending up with something that will sit on t...

Thank you all buddies, for such quick and detailed replies. Simeon hit on the flexibility and trickiness of a wood lathe. That attracts me, your know, the best price-FUN ratio! Just that a tenon turning tool is not practicably available to me due to the prohibitive postage. The self drilled delrin s...

Kurt, I haven't used a lathe but plan to get one in several months' time. Is a 3-jaw thing sufficient for tenon turning on my ABS rods which are manufactured in cylinder form (20mm in diametre) rather than rectangle? And another question, again, is the wood/metal lathe agony. Since delrin is not ava...

Thank you, Pietenpauw. Very attractive. Although my experience of working with blackwood put me in awe of that material, now your comments really make my hands itchy for another grisly battle. I totally agree that your blackwood pipe is to be traded for none other, as it consumes twice more labor th...

Thanks. You guys on this forum invariably give superstition-busting advice. That's part of my motive for asking the question in the first place. But only PART, I have to say. Yet the other part is always there, tickling many amateur pipe tinkers like me: seeking the magic thing. To quote the movie P...

There have been stories about some excellent pipes being able to keep tobacco smouldering for 5 or even 10 minutes when you leave them sitting on the table. I have never been so lucky to see that. How do you pros make a pipe that can do that? Is it airway design and working? Quality of wood? Or magi...

Coming back to the moisture problem, today I tried Kurt's suggestion to see how to address it by smoothing the airway. I picked my wettest smoker, looked into the mortise, and discovered that there was a wide gap between the mortise bottom and the tenon end, and the tenon was unchamfered. That might...

Comes to shank-wagging, I have discovered something interesting today. Moisture apart, these days I'm more obssessed with how to achive a cool smoke, as the scorching summer days are aggravating my tongue bite (or at least my perception of it). Today I made an experimentaion of extending the stem of...

It may be extreme to totally deny the porosity credit. I will refute this with an extreme example. Have you guys tried a metal pipe? I had a brush with a copper one. It was torture. I could actually see the tar and water glimmering on the inner wall during the very first smoke! Extremely hot and bit...

Thanks for suggestions, Frank. I have tried opening up the airway of an estate pipe. Drilling the shank-end draft is not much trouble, but the thin mouthpiece puts a limit there. Despite the opening up of airway to 4.5mm, that pipe still turned out to be the wettest and hottest SOB I have ever suffe...

African Blackwood's latin name is Dalbergia melanoxylon and Australian Blackwood Acacia melanoxylon , so I bet they are of the same genus. I have no idea what the latter looks like, but I have some African Blackwood rods on hand. They are not thick enough for stummels, but I have made a short mouthp...

Thank you so much for your kind suggestions. Frank suggested the moisture "sump" pipes. Yeah, that's the word I fumbled for and in its absence used "water chamber", which perhaps explains why Todd mistook me for a hemp junkie. :oops: I got all the moisture even when smoking Engli...

Hi, everyone. Glad to post my first topic. I have been wondering how you address the issue of water in the stem while smoking. I can't figure out whether it is condensation or saliva. Anyway, it is a plague to me. As ebonite and acrylic do not absorb any liquid, I have managed a perfectly dry smoke ...